Watch the engineer and you will learn many things, but do not ask him about mathematics, unless you want to see quite another thing, how technology and folk-lore get invented and broadcast.


Poetry and Mathematics - Chapter 1 (p. 38), The University of Chicago Press. 1975


Watch the engineer and you will learn many things, but do not ask him about mathematics, unless you want to see quite another thing, how technology...

Watch the engineer and you will learn many things, but do not ask him about mathematics, unless you want to see quite another thing, how technology...

Watch the engineer and you will learn many things, but do not ask him about mathematics, unless you want to see quite another thing, how technology...

Watch the engineer and you will learn many things, but do not ask him about mathematics, unless you want to see quite another thing, how technology...